Despite how it looks, this is not done with Intarsia. Horizontal stripes are formed by changing the yarn color. Vertical stripes are added later by working a crochet slip stitch up a column of knit stitches.

Both English and Japanese versions are fully charted using standard knitting and/or crochet symbols. Japanese version available here.

Tools/Materials:

• Japanese size 3 knitting needles (3.0mm)

• Japanese size 3/0 crochet hook (2.3mm)

• 15g (62.6m) color 11

• small amount colors 06 and 09

• 1 piece of elastic (1cm wide, 36cm long)

• 1 buckle